susanmarie

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1. What age were you when you went to nursing school?

   susanmarie replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

   39. And had my 3rd child the day after finishing my OB rotation (no extra credit, darn).

2. "personal delivery experience" when being a L&D nurse

   susanmarie posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hi Just getting input - do you think having given birth is an advantage in being an L&D nurse? Did you share the fact that you had given birth when interviewing for L&D? Is it even relevant? (duh, one does not have to be a cancer survivor to ...

3. North Carolina Roll Call

   susanmarie replied to RNPATL's topic in North Carolina

   Hi, I'm Susie, 2nd career nurse (former social worker), graduated iBSN in 2004, worked for 5 months in peds hem/onc/BMT, had to stop working due to some family issues. Currently living in Ohio but will be relocating to NC (cary/apex) this summer. I'm...

4. Interview on Mon

   susanmarie replied to anc33's topic in Public/Community

   Hi, I'm thinking about switching to Public Health too (and welcome any advice from other PH nurses). I'm a new grad RN (June 04), working on a Peds HemOncBMT unit, and the hours are basically killing me and my family. My real passions are OB/Peds/P...

5. New OB nurse

   susanmarie replied to larae09's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'm a new grad nurse too, and I'm interviewing for an OB position tomorrow! It's so hard to get any hospitals around here to even consider a new grad for OB so I'm really excited and nervous! did you have any special background to get the OB position...

6. Where did you go to nursing school?

   susanmarie replied to Noney's topic in Ohio

   Just graduated with my BSN from Otterbein College in Westerville. Got my first degree - BA Psychology - from Oberlin College.

7. took nclex-rn today...

   susanmarie replied to breastfeedingRN's topic in NCLEX

   How did you get results in 24 hours? I thought the fastest was 48 hours on-line? Maybe it won't be such a long wait. Congratulations!

8. took nclex-rn today...

   susanmarie replied to breastfeedingRN's topic in NCLEX

   I just got back from my NCLEX-RN too. Sucked. I know which areas I messed up - I came home and looked them up. Hopefully it wasn't enough to make me fail, but I'm not optimistic. Then again, can I really fail if I got all the other areas right, an...